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Great Gift!.......2007-08-10
I purchased this book for my daughter to give her friend as a gift. It was given to a young boy turning six, who knows everything about ships especially the Titanic. He loved it! I would definitely purchase again.
great pictures.......2007-08-05
Though a child's book, well illustrated for those interested in this ship and tired of maps.
Only regret, wish it were more illustrated and does not give break down of lifeboat capacity boat by boat though provides overall lifeboat and passenger capacity.
Inside the Titanic: A Giant Cut-away Book.......2007-04-01
I bought this book for my grandson's 7th birthday. He is into everything Titanic. He loves it.
Big book for small Titanic fans!!.......2007-01-21
I purchased this book for my 4 and a half-year-old son, which is now fascinated by all things Titanic. I felt the tragic nature of the story; the excessive text of most books and the content of the movies were not suitable for kids. When I found this book I knew it would be just right for a him.
The size of the book was the first thing that amazed my son. Then he was impressed with the dominant artwork inside. Marschall's illustrations are simply wonderful. He's indeed a great artist and an expert when it comes to the Titanic. The book illustrates the great ship, its interiors and it's ultimate demise as it follows the story of two real-life children that were aboard the Titanic on her maiden voyage.
My son was so excited after we finished the book that he insisted to take it to school where his teacher had a reading for the whole class.
great pictures.. facts.. and even a story.......2007-01-20
My 4 year old son got this book from his Nana for Christmas. He wants to read it every night. It is filled with great pictures, including a huge 4 page fold out. The pictures are colorful and very detailed. It is also filled with great facts, and even a story. Couldn't ask for a better book on the Titanic.
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The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie away to the decks of that ill-fated ship, the Titanic. There they must help two children find their way to a lifeboat--all while they are in danger of becoming victims of that tragic night themselves.
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Good Book.......2007-06-11
I purchased this book in order to replace a damaged one. The transaction was smooth and the price was great!
Fantastic Titanic - Joe Third Grader.......2007-05-02
Magic Tree House has done it again!! Jack and Annie are in for the adventure of their lives when they climb aboard the Titanic!! An unsinkable ship that hits an iceberg. What will Jack and Annie do when they dicover that the Titanic needed twice as many life boats as it had on deck?Jack and Annie find themselves just as sad as so many passengers when they realize that people could have survived if the people who planned the voyage had thought ahead. This is an amazing story that I couldn't stop reading! Women and children were put into the lifeboats first becuase men were brave and cared about their lives. More than 1,500 people lost their lives. Everything was explained clearly so that you don't get confused. After this tragedy, laws were made so that all ships would have enough life boats for all of its passengers and an INternational Ice Patrol was formed so that ships could be warned about severe ice conditions. In 1985 a scienctist named Dr. Robert Ballard discovered the ship under water. I reccommend this book to everyone that I know!!
Magic Tree House.......2007-03-19
Here is a summery of this book. There is two kids and they were playing in the woods when they found a tree house. So the kids decided to see in side. So read this book to find out what happens to the kids. The way I found out about this book is because my mom told me to read a book when I was in 5th grade. So I heard about this wonderful series of books. I would love to recommend you to read this book. Who can read this book you ask! Anybody can read this book. If they like to explore then you should read this book.
What did I like this book you ask! The thing I liked was the characters because they are young and they don't know what was going on. They are always getting in trouble and they don't know why they are in trouble. I also like the action in this book. There are so many parts. I don't know how to explain. There are some parts I don't like is the length of the book. It is to short.
I loved this book a lot because it is nice and cool. I really think you should read this book. So read this book.
MY BOY LOVES READING.......2007-01-07
My 1st grader hates to put it down, he would rather read Magic Tree House books, than play video games. He even reads them to his class and explains the story for show and tell. In his kindergarten class the teacher would also let him read the Magic Tree House books out loud, not to give her a break, but to promote reading out loud. Great books!
Invites youngsters into active history.......2006-12-24
From the band playing to the life boats and many details in between, the author mixes actual historical fact with age appropriate fictional interest. My first grade son and I read this and now we're researching the grand ballroom because its now interesting to him.... great series!
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- Lame. Lame. Lame.
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- RAISE THE TITANIC
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The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element--and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance. Now, racing against brutal storms, Soviet spies, and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most thrilling mission--to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century...
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Lame. Lame. Lame........2007-09-25
This fast paced adventure thriller would have been excellent reading- when I was 14. I gave Cussler a try and read the first three books. I think I'm done. James Bond can't get into a girl's pants like Dirk Pitt. In "The Mediterranean Caper", Pitt slaps a girl he just met and screws her on the beach. In "Iceberg", he pretends to be gay. In "Raise the Titanic" he just screws a woman he seemingly had no prior connection to on the Titanic. The plot is intriguing but just doesn't play out. I was sick of this book by the end and just wanted it to be over.
Thrilling .......2007-04-02
As usual, Clive Cussler produced a suspence-thrilling book- one that is very difficult to put down!!!Raise the Titanic! (Dirk Pitt Adventures)
Titanic novel.......2006-12-27
Good mixture of historical events with fictional adventure story. Well written and fast paced. Has elements of unbelievable, but that is what fiction is about.
Not Cussler's Best.......2006-11-06
Good book but do not expect classic Cussler out of this one
RAISE THE TITANIC.......2006-10-31
The book Raise The Titanic was about the ship Titanic and the people that thought the Titanic wasn't split in half. They thought that the Titanic was cut in half, but this was before they made the movie Titanic. The book Raise the Titanic was about the people that keep track how far down it really was. (2.5m). One of the steamers fell off the Titanic and the scientists searched for over 2.5 miles and didn't find the lost steamer.
In the book Raise The Titanic, the ship didn't split in half, but in the movie it really was split in half.
The true 1 thing is that it really was 2.5 miles below the ocean. When the people made the movie it must have been fun, but in real life it must have been HORIFYING. If I were on Titanic, I would be the first to the Lifeboats. I recommend this book to other people because it is different from the movie from the book Raise The Titanic. I also recommend it is a really HEART POUNDING, SAD STORY. They believed that the Titanic was unsinkable and not split in half in the book.
The book Raise The Titanic was about the ship Titanic and the people that thought the Titanic wasn't split in half. They thought that the Titanic was cut in half, but this was before they made the movie Titanic. The book Raise the Titanic was about the people that keep track how far down it really was. (2.5m). One of the steamers fell off the Titanic and the scientists searched for over 2.5 miles and didn't find the lost steamer.
In the book Raise The Titanic, the ship didn't split in half, but in the movie it really was split in half.
The true 1 thing is that it really was 2.5 miles below the ocean. When the people made the movie it must have been fun, but in real life it must have been HORIFYING. If I were on Titanic, I would be the first to the Lifeboats. I recommend this book to other people because it is different from the movie from the book Raise The Titanic. I also recommend it is a really HEART POUNDING, SAD STORY. They believed that the Titanic was unsinkable and not split in half in the book.
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- A HISTORY BUFF MUST READ!!
- Loving the book
- unsurpassed
- Interesting, but long and drawn out
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This invaluable book collects some of the first-published first-person accounts of the tragedy, described in old-fashioned prose and enhanced by photographs and illustrations redolent of Edwardian society, with captions such as "Ladies and gentlemen in riding habit exercised on mechanical horses and camels in the ship's gymnasium." Some of the social attitudes of the day are preserved to often startling effect: the habits of obedience of "the Teutonic race" are repeatedly praised, and one brave Titanic officer used what the book's introduction terms "the strange ethical algebra which decided that one female, travelling first class, deserved life some six times as much as one male, travelling third class." Yet it's just such period detail that makes this book so compelling--not to mention the vivid sense that the passengers just didn't get it, even while disaster was upon them. "To illustrate further how little danger was apprehended," writes survivor Lawrence Beesley, "when it was discovered ... that the forward lower deck was covered with small ice, snowballing matches were arranged for the following morning.... The cries of drowning people after the Titanic gave the final plunge were a thunderbolt to us."
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What it was really like. Panic, despair, shocking inefficiency, and a dash of heroism. Two lengthy narratives by passengers who had a thorough knowledge of the sea and by members of the ship's crew. More thrilling than any fictional account. 26 illustrations.
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A HISTORY BUFF MUST READ!!.......2007-08-17
This book definately confirms the acutual facts of the Titanic tragedy from the the day of departure until the impact with the iceberg. It gives you the true facts from the mouths of the survivors & definately corrects misconceptions lasting through the tales of time. Even the exact jounal facts of the trial after the tragedy confirms facts not accurate, even to the song the band was playing when the ship went down. It also does confirm facts that were true. Also, you learn of the changes in ship law regarding life boat number in regards to souls on board, & other major changes after the Titanic tragedy. THE MAIN THING LEARNED WAS THAT MANY BRAVE SOULS WENT DOWN WITH THIS SHIP WITHOUT COMPLAINT OR CAUSING ANY PROBLEMS AT ALL WHEN NOT NECESSARY, PLEASE HONOR THESE PEOPLE & THEIR MEMORIES AS YOU READ THIS BOOK. More detailed history that you will ever read regarding this tragedy...
Loving the book.......2007-07-11
I love this book. Learning the account of the disaster from the perspective of those who went through it is interesting.
unsurpassed.......2007-05-09
"That cold green water, crawling its ghostly way up the staircase, was a sight that stamped itself indelibly in my memory. Step, by step, it made its way up, covering the electric lights, which for a short time shone under the suface with a horribly weird effect." This, tetsimony from an officer of the ship, named Lightoller, matches any description for effect that any fiction writer could create. It is the fact that this book is taken from the testimony of four of Titanic's survivors that makes this book so excellent. One gets a real sense of the times---Edwardian England---where duty was paramount and the supposed superiorty of the English race, which colors the survivor's accounts, hints at the very pride that contributed to the disaster---a fascinating paradox. Not only do you get the testimoney from four survivors--each several chapters---but also a boat by boat testimonial from the survivors of those boats. Another reviewer here found this testimony mundane, but I found it fascinating and objectively complete. It seems that the most famous account of the disaster in book form, A Night to Remember, took much of its information from this book, and what makes this book so much more appealing is that the accounts are unfiltered. Captain Lightoller's account is particularly illuminating in that it shines a critical light on the Titanic hearings before the U.S. and English governments, which he calls a "farce." Another fascinating thing about this book is that despite the differing experiences related here by the survivors you begin to pick up bits and pieces of testimony that weave a common thread of experience among all---like a great puzzle.
Interesting, but long and drawn out.......2004-02-19
I'm very interested in the Titanic, and have read several books about the events surronding this disaster. This book was interesting, but very very long and drawn out. Sometimes I was so bored reading it that I fell asleep. Particulary, I didn't care to know what every single person inside of every single lifeboat did, said, didn't do or didn't say, etc. But, like I said before, there was some interesting info. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone nor will I ever read it again.
A wonderful remembrance of not such a wonderful thing.......2002-05-01
But definitely worth reading if you want to learn more about the Titanic and how the survivors felt.
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882.5 answers to questions about titanic.......2007-07-29
This book is perfect for younger children that want to learn about the Titanic.My son who is [...]was learning about the Titanic in school.His teacher was very impressed with this book.It is bold print and easy for children to read with great pictures.A most have book for young Titanic explorers.
Very Interesting.......2007-07-20
This book has lots of informative and interesting facts about the Titanic. Whatever your interest level, this book probably has something in it you didn't know.
For Titanic aficionados, this is a great reference book.
882 1/2 Percent AWSOME!!!!!!.......2007-05-24
This is easily the best book on the TITANIC I have found so far, and I have been looking for info on the TITANIC for several months now. It is chock-full of infromation, paintings, and photos of this famous ship. Once I said to my friend, "Ask me any question about the TITANIC, and bet I can answer it with this book." And I was, infact abel to answer most every question he asked me!!! This wonderfuly descriptive, informative, and colorful book is 882 1/2 percent AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
882 1/2 Amazing Answers To Your Questions About The Titanic.......2007-04-01
Bought this for my grandson's 7th birthday. He positivly loves it. Look it to school and home. Read it in the van constantly. A big hit with him and his father.
Great Ship Information.......2007-01-12
I bought this book for my 6 year old grandson who is fascinated with what happened to the Titanic. He reads the book over and over. I bought him some other Titanic related items such as a coloring book and pop up book.
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absolutely beautiful book, threads past and present, a must for those interested in the Titanic.......2007-03-21
For me, the greatest story of the Titanic was the true story. I'm not really one for nonfiction, and yet this story just fascinates me (and so many others) unbelievably. Anyway, this book is beautifully and poeticly written, full of amazing pictures and history. Best of all, it is incredibly up to date with a wealth of new findings and information about the wreck. Grade: A-
Titanic.......2006-04-24
What Bill C. said is completely off topic this is a book about the greatest sea disaster that changed the world the Titanic. NOT the Lusitania which was sunk even after americans were warned by the german embassy in the US to travelers that any ship flying the british flag would be sunk. Bill C obviously needs to learn his history cause hes really showing how little he knows, The book is great it covers just about every major point of Titanic. If you want to read about the Lusitania which was on her last voyage from the start and was to be scrapped after she returned to england go read bob ballards book about the Sinking of the Lustiania. If you want to read a book about the greatest sea disaster that was foretold 14 years before by a writer and one that changed how things were done from having the wireless systems up 24 hours a day to ensure that distress messages would be receved to lifeboats for everyone regardless the tonnage which was how Titanic was required by law to carry 16 boats cause it stated anyship over 16,000 Tons is required to carry 16 boats even though Titanic was 57,000 Long Tons.
I would recommed this book to anyone that wants a well put together book or anyone that is a Titanic buff.
A lot of bull about the Titanic.........2005-06-17
as the world's greatest ocean liner. The Lusitania (which sunk in 1915) brought the USA into World War One.That Lusitania was an important ship! The Titanic sinking did nothing sinking for the USA or any country that could equal bringing a country into a World War.
Attractive Book for Light Reading.......2002-12-27
Overall, this is a nicely-designed and illustrated book that would make a great gift. Many of the artifact photos (of which there are plenty) are unique to this book. The issue of salvage haunts every page of this book. On numerous occasions author Susan Wels makes the case for RMS Titanic, Inc. and their salvage operations. That may or may not be fine to you, depending upon your view of the whole salvage thing, but you'll probably find that it gets kind of annoying and repetitive after a while. Much is made of the fact that Titanic-finder Robert Ballard initially supported some salvage operations (he is now opposed to them).
All of that aside, the rest of the book is nice to look at and worth reading. The text plays second-fiddle to the photographs, but that's fine for a book such as this.
I was a bit surprised at one error in the text- in describing Captain Smith's safety record, Wels notes that he was captain of the Germanic when it `capsized' in 1899. Well, the Germanic sank upright at its pier because of an ice storm; it was quickly re-floated and spent another 51 years in service; the captain and crew were found not at fault by White Star; and the captain at the time was Edward McKinstry, not Edward J. Smith.
The Titanic saga in one easy, illustrated lesson........2000-07-10
Accurate, up to date, treatment in one volume of what happened to the Titanic. Also with excellent coverage of the discovery of the remains seventy years later, with copious pictures and illustrations. Students needing a short one-volume outline of the tragedy will find it here. Sensitivity and intelligence characterise this fine volume.
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This gorgeous volume brings history to life as readers follow a young boy's passage on the Titanic. Through his journals and loads of incredible novelty features, readers will get a unique inside look at the impressive luxury ship and her maiden voyage. Novelty features include: pop-ups, pull tabs, slide mechanisms, fold-out maps, and booklets for additional Titanic information. TITANIC offers readers fabulous new insight into what it was really like aboard the luxury boat with photographs, letters, and journal entries.
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enchanting.......2007-07-28
This version of Titanic is by far the most graphic and fact ridden of the many books I have read about the magnificent ship. It amazes children ages 5-100! It is the kind of book that doesn't have to be read in one sitting, but keeps pulling me back to its pages.
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Five Stars.......2007-08-08
An excellent book Margaret lives in an orphan in London while waiting to save up enough money for a ticket to America where her brother William in Boston. Margaret gets a chance to when Mrs. Carstairs wants a complain to accompany her to America aboard Titanic. Having never had money Margaret's impressions on the ship, people and Mrs. Carstairs are very intersting. She meets Robert a Steward on her floor whom she likes. Margaret was very brave during the sinking and I liked how she first decided not to get on one of the lifeboats. I was saddened though at Robert's death. It was a very good story.
Very sad, but good book!.......2007-05-30
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I love dear america, and have written reviews on a lot of them. This one was like, the fiftenth I read? (maybe twentieth???) and I loved it. I reread it more times than I can count! It's very touching and sad; I lvoe the author's style of writing. It has a good plot. There aren't many books about the titanic, especially in a young woman's perspective. The plot to this book is a little similair to the movie, "The Titianic", but not enough that it's obvois or annoying. The only parts that are similair to the movie is the relationship between Margret and Robert, and the small love scene. Besides that, there's no similarities. Again, this is an amaizng book, and I love it! a greta ddition to your historical fiction or dear america collection.
best young adult novel on the tragic sinking.......2007-05-05
A well-written and historically accurate telling of the Titanic disaster from the perspective of a young girl immigrating to the United States as a companion to a wealthy passenger. Margaret's perspective is that of an outsider, not only to the wealthy culture, but to the adult and American culture. Probably the best young adult fiction based on the disaster, as it's true to history (the period and the event) and the characters are real (Margaret is spunky, but obedient, emotional but constrained). It captures the emotional tragedy, the spirit and feel of the horrific event. For adults and the Titanic fascinated, the story isn't anything new or original or especially engaging. Grade: B+
The Ship of Dreams.......2007-03-08
Everyone called the Titanic the ship of dreams, and for Margaret Anne Brady, it was a dream. She would be traveling with a lady from London England to find her brother, whom she hasn't seen since her parents died a few years back. Margaret was leaving her friends which was her family to come to America on the Titanic. She loved it. It was everything she dreamed off until that dreadful day the Titanic sank. If I was her I would have never made it through the night of freezing cold weather with only a over coat. She had no family just Mrs. Carstairs who she was traveling with. I don't know how anyone could have gone through that. It truly would have been a nightmare.
Excellent Book Collection.......2007-02-26
I have started reading the "Dear America" book collection to my little sister. We started with Margaret and just loved the book so we bought another and then another. My brother has even started listening now and we have gone through eight or nine of the books and are continuing to read more. The thing about these books that make them so AMAZING is that they not only have an interesting story line for people of all ages (making it so enjoyable for people of all age groups) but they are also very historically acurate and well researched. My sister told me one day that her class was covering The Mayflower and she already knew everything and she got up to share more! These books are so educational and also fun. The one thing to throw iin as a warning would be the fact that they are VERY real to history-- and sometimes they can be very graphic. All in all these books are five star! Def. worth the investment!
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James Cameron's 1997 Titanic movie is a smash hit, but Walter Lord's 1955 classic remains in some ways unsurpassed. Lord interviewed scores of Titanic passengers, fashioning a gripping you-are-there account of the ship's sinking that you can read in half the time it takes to see the film. The book boasts many perfect movie moments not found in Cameron's film. When the ship hits the berg, passengers see "tiny splinters of ice in the air, fine as dust, that give off myriads of bright colors whenever caught in the glow of the deck lights." Survivors saw dawn reflected off other icebergs in a rainbow of shades, depending on their angle toward the sun: pink, mauve, white, deep blue--a landscape so eerie, a little boy tells his mom, "Oh, Muddie, look at the beautiful North Pole with no Santa Claus on it."
A Titanic funnel falls, almost hitting a lifeboat--and consequently washing it 30 yards away from the wreck, saving all lives aboard. One man calmly rides the vertical boat down as it sinks, steps into the sea, and doesn't even get his head wet while waiting to be successfully rescued. On one side of the boat, almost no males are permitted in the lifeboats; on the other, even a male Pekingese dog gets a seat. Lord includes a crucial, tragically ironic drama Cameron couldn't fit into the film: the failure of the nearby ship Californian to save all those aboard the sinking vessel because distress lights were misread as random flickering and the telegraph was an early wind-up model that no one wound.
Lord's account is also smarter about the horrifying class structure of the disaster, which Cameron reduces to hollow Hollywood formula. No children died in the First and Second Class decks; 53 out of 76 children in steerage died. According to the press, which regarded the lower-class passengers as a small loss to society, "The night was a magnificent confirmation of women and children first, yet somehow the loss rate was higher for Third Class children than First Class men." As the ship sank, writes Lord, "the poop deck, normally Third Class space ... was suddenly becoming attractive to all kinds of people." Lord's logic is as cold as the Atlantic, and his bitter wit is quite dry.
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The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a completely riveting account of the Titanic's fatal collision and the behavior of the passengers and crew, both noble and ignominious. Some sacrificed their lives, while others fought like animals for their own survival. Wives beseeched husbands to join them in lifeboats; gentlemen went taut-lipped to their deaths in full evening dress; and hundreds of steerage passengers, trapped below decks, sought help in vain. Available for the first time in trade paperback and with a new introduction for the 50th anniversary edition by Nathaniel Phil-brick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Sea of Glory, Walter Lord's classic minute-by-minute re-creation is as vivid now as it was upon first publication fifty years ago. From the initial distress flares to the struggles of those left adrift for hours in freezing waters, this semicentennial edition brings that moonlit night in 1912 to life for a new generation of readers.
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The undisputed champ after 52 years.......2007-08-01
Two things set A Night to Remember apart from every other book and film on the subject of the Titanic:
First, with the exception of the ship breaking up as it sank (and the official record, with its conflicting testimony, shows it could have been written either way in 1955) and the use of the first SOS (which Lord corrected in later editions), there is not a single fact in the book that has ever been proven wrong. And, oh, how supporters of Capt. Lord of the Californian have tried.
Second, this is not a book about the sinking of the Titanic so much as it is a book about the PEOPLE involved in the event of the sinking. Take just the first sentence of the first chapter: "High in the crow's-nest of the new White Star Liner Titanic, Lookout Frederick Fleet peered into the dazzling night." Remember back to your English grammar classes and you will note that the subject of this sentence is a person, not a ship. So it is throughout the rest of the book. As readers, are we not more compelled by people rather than objects? Of course we are.
And as Walter Lord reminds us from the first that this is a story about people, so does he employ the expertise of a reporter and the flair of a novelist. The reporter . . . Who? Frederick Fleet. What? He peered. When? Night. Where? The Titanic's crow's-nest. Why? He was a Lookout. But by dressing up these facts with a few choice words and phrases ("High up", "new", "dazzling"), Lord draws us in dramatically.
Over the years, science and technology have given us greater insight into the building, operation, and physical break-up of the Titanic. But no one has ever come close to Walter Lord in recreating and relating the events of the night of April 14 - 15, 1912.
A Minute-by-Minute Account of the Sinking of the Titanic.......2007-01-26
At 11:40 p.m. on the night of April 14, 1912, the White Star liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic. Less than three hours later, the ship known to the world as "unsinkable" was on her way to the bottom of the sea.
The unexpectedness of the event, along with the shocking number of lives lost (more than 1500 by most estimates) and the many stories of carelessness and incompetence contributing to the disaster, cemented the Titanic into the collective consciousness of Western culture. Countless articles, exhibits, books, and movies (the most famous, released in 1997, grossed over $1.8 billion in worldwide revenue) have documented and fictionalized various aspects of the tragedy. Even nearly a hundred years later, it would be difficult to find someone who had never heard of the Titanic.
In 1955, while many of the survivors of the Titanic's first and only voyage were still alive--and before the journalistic novel became fashionable as a genre--Walter Lord researched and wrote a minute-by-minute account of what happened during the ship's final night. Called A Night to Remember, Lord's account provides an interesting blend of minute details and broad sweeping overviews in its description of what happened onboard the ship.
The book is easy to read and goes very quickly. Lord gives his prose a very journalistic feel, with short sentences and easy language. Entertaining is hardly the right word to use for a description of an event that claimed so many lives, but compelling describes the account pretty well. Lord puts readers right on the deck of the doomed ship, and then right into the lifeboats and, later, into the courtrooms and newspaper editors' offices during the aftermath of the sinking.
Chapters are entitled with snippets of the dialog that occurs within each. Examples include "There's Talk of an Iceberg, Ma'am," "God Himself Could Not Sink This Ship," "There Is Your Beautiful Nightdress Gone," and, perhaps most poignant, "Go Away--We Have Just Seen Our Husbands Drown."
The book's primary weakness is that in trying to include glimpses of so many people's experiences, Lord was mostly unable to go into much depth with any of the individual characters. Unlike later books in this genre--such as Blackhawk Down or The Perfect Storm, both of which describe in detail the experiences of a relatively small number of people during catastrophic events--A Night to Remember has to catalogue the experiences of over 2,000 individuals. Lord manages to include a lot of names, but without any background or detail, they quickly become meaningless.
Though the scope of the book (probably necessarily) minimizes the amount of emotion connected with the tragedy, there are a few emotive moments when the reader realizes along with a child or a wife that a beloved husband or father will not be coming on a lifeboat. Depictions of the wireless operator sleeping onboard the nearby Californian, panicky passengers in lifeboats violently refusing to assist drowning swimmers, and determined high-society men donning formal evening dress to "go down like gentlemen" evoke flashes of emotion as well.
Overall, the book is worth reading for its historically accurate picture of what actually happened on that cold April night. Though it's no literary masterpiece, it is informative and interesting, particularly for anyone who has seen James Cameron's movie or read Clive Cussler's book and would like to know the real story. The book contains nothing objectionable (except for the event itself), and is suitable for any reader. I recommend it without reservation.
A great book to read.......2007-01-10
This is a great book. The descriptions and detail of the ship are brought to life through the writing of Walter Lord. Let you imagination go as you read this book before watching any of the movies if at all possible.
The 'definitive' version?.......2006-10-02
I've wanted this book for ages, and have both the book and the criterion collection DVD on my wishlist. The DVD is virtually impossible to get, unless I want to part with some serious money, so for now, it's a wish to have.
I thought the book might be quite appropriate to read when I took a boat to Belgium - instead it gave me nightmares. But I was ever so slightly disappointed with the book. I've been what has been called "obsessed" with the Titanic for many years now, and have got every book that I've been able to get my hands on, but this is in no way the definitive version. It has been since 1955, and it's said that Walter Lord interviewed the survivors, to get a first hand account, but there's nothing new that hasn't been written in other books before and better. There's also a definitive passenger list at the back - there's been many quibbles over the Titanic passenger list for many years now, and there's always different versions in each book. There was even a J Dawson found in the Titanic cemetery (a place I would love to visit) after the film came out, which no one knew about, or remembered on the boat.
I hope the movie will be better, however I will still keep this book. It may not be as good as I would have hoped, but it's still about the Titanic after all.
Book Talk Review.......2006-06-06
The book A Night to Remember by Walter Lord is an exciting educational learning experience reliving the night of April 14, 1912, the night the Luxurious Liner Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. This book is filled with facts, actual interviews, and transitions to help you understand the terrible tragedy that took place. It gives you a sense of wonder and sorrow and keeps you interested every page. For die-hard Titanic fans, this book is definitely the best. Even if your not, the way Walter Lord writes captures your mind and attention. This book was excellent, one I will read repeatedly and still catch things I missed before. This is a great book for everyone.
Book Description
Impressive illustrations dramatically portray events leading up to and including the sinking of the "unsinkable" White Star liner. Descriptive captions accompany 29 realistic drawings of the Titanic at dock in Southhampton, England; passengers dining, strolling on deck, and relaxing in the elegant first class lounge; the ship striking the iceberg; more.
Customer Reviews:
Titanic Coloring Book.......2006-08-13
Titanic coloring book is great for kids. The book is great because the wonderful pages of art are masterpieces when you color them, there also great for tracing too or helping you draw your own titanic picture. The book i say is for all ages,yes including you grandpa.
THE BOOK IS JUST FUN!!!!!!
Perfect for the Titanic fan in all of us.......2006-03-09
My 5-year-old son is infatuated with the Titanic! This was the perfect and age-appropriate gift for him. He had the whole book colored in about three days, but I must admit, I colored some with him - and enjoyed it! The illustrations are superb and the text is also good! Chock-full of interesting facts.
it teaches kids how the titanic sank.......1998-10-15
it helps you learn how it sunk and it really is a good book to get.
If you judge a book by its cover.......1998-04-07
A book that invites children to color in scenes from a well-known disaster is probably as horrifying, as sinking in the ship itself. After being exposed to the media hype and all of the other coverage surrounding the film release and the Oscars, the last thing I would want is for children who color, which means they are usually of pre-school age, let their imagination run wild with a box of crayons. Studies have shown that children are attracted to color, and I can just imagine the 64 crayola packs famed magenta coloring the dresses of the woman jumping into the life boats. The cries for help written in block letters and sky blue for the bitter cold water that took so many lives. Maybe they can start a companion series and have children color in scenes from Kobe or perhaps the fateful plane crashes on the twentieth century. This coloring book makes me worship teletubbies, as I pray to Barney for salvation.
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